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X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov), C++/Perl/Unix Consulting Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 22:44:47 GMT X-Envelope-To: uk-gay-lesbian-bi@usenet.org.uk X-Forwarding-To: uk-gay-lesbian-bi@usenet.org.uk From: "Barry Salter" Newsgroups: uk.gay-lesbian-bi Subject: RESULT - uk.gay-lesbian-bi Moderation Panel Elections 2008 Organization: UKVoting - Message-ID: X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1212619484 16724 80.177.110.225 (4 Jun 2008 22:44:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 22:44:44 +0000 (UTC) Approved: uk-glb Moderators X-Moderator: Automatically Moderated Lines: 463 Bytes: 15293 Xref: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com uk.gay-lesbian-bi:316901 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 RESULTS OF CALL FOR VOTES uk.glb Moderation Panel Elections 2008 Summary: All of the candidates are elected, in the following order: Lyn David Thomas Paul Anderson Stephen M Baines Robert Marshall ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Voting closed at 23:59:59 BST, 1st June 2008. Votetaker: Barry Salter ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Distribution: uk.gay-lesbian-bi ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The results follow below in the following order: 1) Result in full 2) Particulars of the Vote 3) Votetakers comments 4) Voting and Appeal guidelines 5) Election Guidelines ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Result in full All of the candidates are elected, in the following order: Lyn David Thomas Paul Anderson Stephen M Baines Robert Marshall eSTV output: uk.gay-lesbian-bi Moderation Panel Elections 2008 02/06/2008 Stage 1 Total Valid Vote: 8 Places to be filled +1: 5 So Quota = 8/5 Quota = 1.60 First Preferences Lyn David Thomas 3.00 Paul Anderson 3.00 Robert Marshall 0.00 Stephen M Baines 2.00 Re-Open Nominations 0.00 Lyn David Thomas ELECTED with 3.00 over quota 1.60 Paul Anderson ELECTED with 3.00 over quota 1.60 Stephen M Baines ELECTED with 2.00 over quota 1.60 Active Vote: 3.20 Places left+1: 2 Vote required for election now: 1.60 Stage 2 No candidates can be excluded, so we transfer the largest surplus Surplus of Paul Anderson Robert Marshall gets 3 papers. 3 papers transferred. Total Present Value: 3.00 0 papers non-transferable. Calculating transfer value: 1.40/3 Papers transferred at 0.46 Robert Marshall now has 1.38 votes. 0.02 votes non-transferable. Active Vote: 3.18 Places left+1: 2 Vote required for election now: 1.59 Stage 3 No candidates can be excluded, so we transfer the largest surplus Surplus of Lyn David Thomas Robert Marshall gets 3 papers. 3 papers transferred. Total Present Value: 3.00 0 papers non-transferable. Calculating transfer value: 1.40/3 Papers transferred at 0.46 Robert Marshall now has 2.76 votes. 0.02 votes non-transferable. Robert Marshall ELECTED with 2.76 over quota 1.60 ***Finished*** In grid format, this is expressed as follows: uk.gay-lesbian-bi Moderation Panel Elections 2008 Number to be elected: 4 (from 5) Counted votes: 8 Quota for election on first round: 1.60 1st Stage 2 Stage 3 Pref T A T A 3 3.00 -1.40 1.60 Elect Lyn David Thomas 3 -1.40 1.60 1.60 Elect Paul Anderson 0 1.38 1.38 1.38 2.76 Elect Robert Marshall 2 2.00 2.00 Elect Stephen M Baines 0 0.00 0.00 Re-Open Nominations 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.04 Non-transferable 8 8.00 8.00 Totals Key to grid: Stage 2 - Surplus of Paul Anderson Stage 3 - Surplus of Lyn David Thomas T = number of votes transferred at this stage A = votes for candidate after transfer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Particulars of the Vote 11 emails were received at the ballot paper request address. These were 1 test by the votetaker 10 ballot requests 11 emails were received at the vote submission address. These were 2 tests by the votetaker 8 valid votes 1 duplicated vote The following people posted valid votes: Gregoire Ketz gktzh eiano rguk Lyn David Thomas lynci bwror g mark Marrk N19ao lcom Neil Matthews neilc haoso rguk paul {vote r}wat mancl araco uk Paul G notio npadd ingto norgu k robert marshall rober tchez marsh allfr eeser vecou k Stephen M Baines usene tkits chcam ppala ceorg uk As per the charter: ii. Each voter shall receive an acknowledgement from the vote taker. They will be given a unique identification as part of their acknowledgement, this will enable them to verify their vote when the result is published while protecting their identity from other voters. viii. The vote taker will publish the result and a voting list comprising voter identifiers and their vote. And therefore the following are the votes with the Unique ID for people to identify their votes and the way people voted: Re-Open Nominations ---------------\ Stephen M Baines ------------\ | Robert Marshall ---------\ | | Paul Anderson ------\ | | | Lyn David Thomas ---\ | | | | | | | | | Voter ID | | | | | 226aea04509c85cb 1 2 4 3 - 348c12da646d5510 3 - 2 1 - 351756d46f20b4af 4 1 3 2 - 4e062965a9db7906 2 1 3 - 4 99c5777ba56b6672 4 1 2 3 - c52f8a7cb6601f20 3 4 2 1 - c6921f98e38ac4a7 1 4 3 2 5 f815f639c68cf821 1 2 3 4 5 Key: - = No preference expressed If you wish to check that your vote has been correctly recorded, your Voter ID can be found on your ballot paper and your acknowledgement. It should be noted that the Voter IDs were issued randomly, and the sequence here does not match either the order in which ballot papers were requested or the alphabetical sequence of voter names or email addresses. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Votetaker Comments One voter requested a ballot paper to a spamtrapped email address. The potential voter did correct this following a conversation with the votetaker. Voters are reminded that placing a spamtrapped address as the Subject: or Reply-To: in emails requesting a ballot paper means that the server will issue a ballot paper to the spamtrapped address and server will issue a ballot paper to the spamtrapped address and not the From: address as email addresses in the Subject: or Reply-To: headers override the From: address. That aside, the actual vote was without any incident, no messed up votes, no bounces, no ballot papers filled in incorrectly and no invalid votes. The voting procedures still seem to make the whole Elections procedure unnecessary, and (once again, again) I hope the charter is amended in time for the next run. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Voting and Appeal Guidelines This vote was conducted by a neutral third party member of UKVoting. UKVoting is a group of independent votetakers who count votes on behalf of the uk.* hierarchy and other 3rd parties. The rules under which votes for the uk.* hierarchy are taken are posted regularly to uk.net.news.announce or can be found at the following URL: The UKVoting web pages can be found at There is a five day discussion period after these results are posted to uk.gay-lesbian-bi Allegations of irregularity should be sent to ukvoting@ukvoting.org.uk. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) Moderation Panel Elections Guidelines >From the charter for uk.glb: Election 2 Initially moderators shall be the panel elected as part of the charter change process. 3. Then each year there after elections will be held for the posts of moderator. i. 11 months after moderation comes into effect (and every twelve months subsequently) the moderation panel will appoint a neutral party to conduct the election as vote taker. The vote taker will issue a call for nominations for a new moderation panel. ii. Nominations will be open for 10 days and to be valid each nominee will have to be proposed and seconded by white list posters self-nomination is permitted). All white list posters shall have the right to vote, regardless as to whether they were white listed before or after the opening of nominations. iii. At the end of 10 days a list of candidates (including their proposers/seconders) will be published. iv. A five day period of hustings will be held during which the candidates will answer questions from posters to the group. v. The vote taker will issue the first call for votes, to be followed by a second call for votes five days later, the voting period lasting in all for 10 days, votes shall only be valid if submitted on official ballot forms. vi. Voting will be by the Single Transferable Vote method, with a reopen nominations candidate (RON) added to the ballot. If RON passes the quota then all the then unfilled places are void requiring a new election for those vacancies. vii. Each voter shall receive an acknowledgement from the vote taker. They will be given a unique identification as part of their acknowledgement, this will enable them to verify their vote when the result is published while protecting their identity from other voters. viii. The vote taker will publish the result and a voting list comprising voter identifiers and their vote. xi. In the event of less than 4 moderators being elected or RON passing quota the vote taker will issue a second request for nominations no later than 1 month after the close of ballot and hold elections for the remaining vacancies. Those elected at this election shall serve until the annual round of elections are held. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CANDIDATES Lyn David Thomas Candidate A Paul Anderson Candidate B Robert Marshall Candidate C Stephen M Baines Candidate D Please find below details of the people who nominated each candidate (Name & Email Address) and a short statement from each candidate: ------------------------------ Candidate A: -=-=-=-=-=-= Name: Lyn David Thomas E-Mail: news (at) cibwr (dot) org Nominators: -=-=-=-=-=- Name: Lyn David Thomas E-Mail: news (at) cibwr (dot) org Name: Paul Anderson E-Mail: usenet (at) watman (dot) clara (dot) co (dot) uk Statement: -=-=-=-=-= I put myself forward not with any enthusiasm but because I believe that the job needs to be done and I have some experience in this. If sufficient candidates come forward I am happy to withdraw and let others have a slice of the fun of moderating :-) ------------------------------ Candidate B: -=-=-=-=-=-= Name: Paul Anderson E-Mail: usenet (at) watman (dot) clara (dot) co (dot) uk Nominators: -=-=-=-=-=- Name: Lyn David Thomas E-Mail: lyn (at) cibwr (dot) plus (dot) com Name: Mark Smith E-Mail: MarrkN19 (at) aol (dot) com Statement: -=-=-=-=-= Though lately having posted intermittently, I do value the group. Since the moderation team do the spam-weeding and what-not to keep uk.glb as readable, welcoming, and open as possible, I welcome this opportunity to do something useful to ensure it remains viable, and am willing to share in the task of moderation in accordance with the charter. ------------------------------ Candidate C: -=-=-=-=-=-= Name: Robert Marshall E-Mail: robert (at) chezmarshall (dot) freeserve (dot) co (dot) uk Nominators: -=-=-=-=-=- Name: paul anderson E-Mail: usenet (at) watman (dot) clara (dot) co (dot) uk Name: lyn david thomas E-Mail: new (at) cibwr (dot) org Statement: -=-=-=-=-= I seem to have moderating for two years, I'm happy to let my name go forward for another! I have aspirations (when busyness recedes(!)) to sort out and reoraganise (and re-spell) the process for this group so that moderation is less of a chore and so that more may feel happy to serve (so beware!!) ------------------------------ Candidate D: -=-=-=-=-=-= Name: Stephen M Baines E-Mail: usenet (at) localhost (dot) kitschcamppalace (dot) org (dot) uk Nominators: -=-=-=-=-=- Name: paul anderson E-Mail: usenet (at) watman (dot) clara (dot) co (dot) uk Name: Robert Marshall E-Mail: spam (at) chezmarshall (dot) freeserve (dot) co (dot) uk Statement: -=-=-=-=-= I've been a regular user for fast approaching 10 years, and have tried to help when I can, and I figure it's my turn to once again delete the spam. I won't be around all the time, due to work, but when I am, I am. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) - WinPT 1.2.0 iQEVAwUBSENYAQld6cyk6lYqAQIkrAf+Jj3rhUWRwCoV2reaeEQ1sdBL+A2Q+Er2 uKogeF1eqMAdgVIOBVFwc9/E8rNpTropjOsbUm+EmL44UaM3L9xeao4m+qEd8mTm sUD9htSn65kXlrqpZ40sKw9xduanz8KLpmdjftg7XErk5I0S+IyjU/3gp244IVEh Q7ulh+1QHxN96FSuwLrrIDiDJHT4n8yKH7t8jJtdHxJXH2mLpS+XVF/Eug1Xn487 wIIPnRUujuN1VF9Slsn2f9CZZGvqdh5J31b0PFIJALtZ5/7KesEKP42stNaHx7aR mr0/obRdbJas0ONM0ZHs8PZzubU9G2gcfzBxbU+1BBN8osO5W8ogbA== =9R25 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Barry Salter, bsalter (at) ukvoting (dot) org (dot) uk PGP Key ID: 0xCFED3BA9, available on DISCLAIMER: The above is my personal opinion, and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of UKVoting as a whole.